KITCHENS AND DINING ROOMS AT POMPEII ... - Get a Free Blog

Data
A) Total area: 211.4 Nodes: 78.8 Connectors: 21.0 Static spaces: 111.6
B) Total # spaces: 13 # Nodes: 2 # Connectors: 3 # Static spaces: 8
C) Area, KI (11): 4.0 Area, DR•(6): 22.3 Length, DR•(6): 6.35 Width, DR•(6): 3.51
46. I.8.15-16, Caupona di N. Fufidius Successus,
diner (Figs. 2.6, 2.49, 5.5, 5.125-5.127)
Synopsis
This complex combined the functions of serving food and manufacturing unknown
products, either pigments (according to Della Corte) or foodstuffs (Castiglione Morelli del Franco
& Vitale). Manufacture took place in room (2), where three hand-mills, nine mortars and pestles
and a furnace were found. The serving counter for the diner in room (1) included six dolia and a
small HE of sub-type (4) in its top surface, overlooked by a niched shrine in the E wall (Fig.
5.125). Behind and to the N, a "-shaped bench in DB (4) furnished seating for customers (Fig.
2.49). Further along was KI (5) with a solid masonry ST of sub-type (1) against the E wall (Fig.
5.126). DR (6) in the NW corner, perhaps for rent by customers, had a couch niche (lectus medius,
w. 1.26 m.) (Fig. 5.127). In the small open court (7) used to catch water, a basin against the S wall
sat below another niched shrine. Fourteen wine amphorae were found fallen from a balcony over
the street at the SW corner of the diner.
References
PPM I, 844-846; Castiglione Morelli del Franco & Vitale 1989, 205-208; PPP I, 82; CTP IIIA, 14-15;
Guida Laterza 1982, 115-116; Guida 1976, 70; Della Corte 1954, 274-276, #683-696; Della Corte NSc
1946, 113-117; Maiuri 1942a, 197.
Data
A) Total area: 190.9 Nodes: 51.4 Connectors: 6.1 Static spaces: 133.4
B) Total # spaces: 11 # Nodes: 2 # Connectors: 2 # Static spaces: 7
C) Area, HE in (1): 2.5 Area, DB (4): 3.1 Length, DB (4): 4.10 Width, DB (4): 0.60
Area, KI (5): 5.2 Area, DR (6): 19.0 Length, DR (6): 5.04 Width, DR (6): 3.76
47. I.8.17+11, Casa dei Quattro Stili, casa media (Figs. 2.6, 5.5, 5.128-5.132)
Synopsis
The KI (21) was located towards the postern entrance at #11; it included a large once-
arched masonry ST of sub-type (2) with a tiled top and low curbs along its W and S edges (Fig.
5.128). Just to the S was a latrine in room (22). This kitchen seems to have replaced one originally
located in (5-6), where the remains of a low masonry podium in the SW corner and some bracket
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